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Zoom meetings are getting hacked. Find out how to prevent your "Zoom trollers" on your video chat.

Updated: Nov 19




Since the coronavirus pandemic started, we saw a big jump in our residential and business clients' demand for video chatting platforms. These "Zoom trollers" have been able to access the Zoom application, which has granted the hackers the ability to connect to any Zoom conference without acknowledgment and interfere with the meeting. Keep in mind that this is happening worldwide to anyone using the teleconferencing platform.



What are the Zoom trollers?


Zoom trollers are unwelcome incidents of trolling into a group teleconferencing meeting. Hackers gain access to a Zoom meeting and attempt to breach the video chat, unsettle participants by yelling profanity or racial slurs or posting unpleasant or repugnant images in their video feed.



How are hackers joining Zoom meetings when they aren't supposed to be there?


Hackers are joining uninvited group video chat meetings by the "individual end-user" incompetent cybersecurity measures and their immature command of Zoom's privacy settings. In other words, hackers can connect if a Zoom meeting is set to the public. This can be filtered through anyone using the correct Zoom meeting link. Our cybersecurity partners agreed with our feedback that the only way something like this can occur is by searching for the countless open Zoom meeting addresses provided freely online, simply by searching "zoom.us" from any social media and forum sites like Instagram, Facebook, and Reddit.



How can you prevent the "Zoom trollers" from happening to your video chat meetings?


Here is a guide created by Zoom.us - to keep your Zoom meetings safe.


Recommend Zoom Users should not share meeting links publicly:


1) Sharing Zoom meeting links is not to be shared within a Facebook group or advertised online on any other social media platform.


2) Distribute information via a more private method, such as email.


3) Set your meetings to "private." Zoom now sets all new meetings to "private" by default, requiring only invites with a password to gain access.


4) Share your meeting ID only with people you trust. If you have compromised your personal meeting ID, we recommend contacting Zoom directly to have it changed.


5) Restrict video sharing. Zoom has changed its screen-sharing setting so that only the host can change it.


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